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ZOHO calls their Microsoft Office suite an OS I think. I feel like if it’s a platform app developers can target to run general purpose user facing software, it can be an OS.

In some sense, it is. Sandstorm called itself an OS too. Arcan calls itself an Overlay-OS. I think for any platform for general purpose computing that provides an application model…

Is it? I hear about 10xers all the time

Or documentation that everyone could read and refer to

SVG?

I am normally the first to complain that people in hacker news are biased against WMF in a way that seems forced and weird (oh no ! they’re sponsoring some cool open culture stuff …

We’ll see. Depends on the primaries. Institutional dems have a pitiful track record on holding people accountable. I expect we’ll see a lot of reaching across the isle and ‘moving …

Haha I think we have a different idea of which 1% is making life miserable

Which is why it was a mistake to let Republicans vote

Who’s saying not to build solar?

Yeah it’s freaky. I work in tech too, I know I’m a villain lol

Seems pretty obvious- that datacenters very measurably contribute to rising costs of electricity and climate change , and unlike aluminum processing or farming which makes things p…

One refrigerator sized rack at a datacenter takes as much power as 150 homes, and they’re using it for technology that disempowers and annoys people. It’s pretty obviously offensiv…

You can have free markets without investments, which imo is the key differentiator between Capitalism and what came before. That’s what ‘capital’ is in capitalism. In fact, capital…

To be fair, if they first vocalize it they could just use Sparse Voxels which is my favorite differentiable rendering technique https://github.com/NVlabs/svraster

I didn’t notice there was a secondary link, sorry. For everyone else, consider this comment a recommendation to click through and watch it then :)

People Make Games just did a terrific documentary on this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N7B9b0GQ&pp=0gcJCUECo7VqN5t...

The core idea of capitalism is that you spend money to make more money. Rich get richer is the basic idea, you invest and those investments make you more. It very necessarily leads…

I mean, you Can, but I like my friends and myself. I feel gross about the place I’m at and I don’t want to lose that feeling.

I was considering pretty heavily getting a teaching license

Downvoters are wrong. Everything here is true. As someone who compromised their morals (not Facebook but other big tech) after being laid off, it was a choice

As I understand it- you can use free community provided relays, self-host your own, or pay for their managed services with an SLA and monitoring built in

Having spent a while trying to understand it, I believe the keys are serving a dual purpose as an encryption key and as a stable identifier along the lines of a session cookie that…

Yeah, the bio in About specifically mentions that they are not the famous one

I don’t understand the vision in the blog post, but I’m very excited to try out the Arcan-net as described in http://www.divergent-desktop.org/blog/2026/01/26/a12web/